PREFACE. 



The majority of our Students come to us with very imper- 

 fectly developed minds, and a totally insufficient know- 

 ledge of tke English language. They are thus quite 

 incapable of following with profit and taking down accurate 

 notes of currently delivered lectures. This would be no 

 great disadvantage if text-books of all the subjects taught 

 were available ; but as no such text-books existed, at least 

 for the Forestry subjects, when the School began its work, 

 the Instructors were constrained to adopt the extremely 

 slow and painful method of dictating all the notes they 

 wished to be taken down. The preparation of the neces- 

 sary text-books was, and is stUl, therefore, an urgent want. 

 At the risk of being considered presumptuous, the author 

 has already published his class notes in several subjects, 

 convinced that it was useless waiting for that happy day 

 when he would enjoy the long and continuous leisure which 

 the writing of an educational work demands. He claims 

 once more the indulgence of the Indian Forest world in 

 publishing the following pages, which contain, with no 

 more revision than it was possible to give them as they 

 were passing through the Press, his Notes on Forest Uti- 

 lization dictated to the Senior Class of 1890-91. To secure 

 for himself more time for revision, they were first printed 

 by instalments in the " Indian Forester." Besides meeting 

 the requirements of the Forest School, the publication of 

 these Notes may, the Author earnestly hopes, serve another 

 not less important purpose, viz., that of offering, as it were, 

 so many pegs on which to hang corrections and additional 

 information which at present exists only scattered in the 

 brains of foresters and others dispersed all over the empire. 



